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ESPN Classic was licensed as Classic Sports in November 2000 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), and was launched on September 7, 2001 as ESPN Classic Canada.[1] A few years after its launch, "Canada" was dropped from its name and logo to "ESPN Classic". ESPN Classic is the only ESPN-branded channel broadcasting in Canada, although in addition to owning a stake in the Canadian version of ESPN Classic, ESPN is part-owner of TSN (which uses on-air branding similar to the flagship ESPN channel in the U.S.), along with Bell Media.

1Owned (or part-owned) by BCE separately from its ownership of Bell Media.2Community channels owned by Bell Canada (Fibe TV) and Bell Aliant (FibreOP); also not part of Bell Media.3Sold to Wow Unlimited Media to be rebranded as a children's entertainment channel.